That's a misunderstanding of what's going on here. It's quite easy to create or manipulate HTML5 elements in Win8 - it's merely that some of the methods used by

That's a misunderstanding of what's going on here. It's quite easy to create or manipulate HTML5 elements in Win8 - it's merely that some of the methods used by Angular and Backbone don't play nice with WinJS unless you tell them to.